Scott Glen & Pip – 2024 Meeker Classic Champions

2024 FINALS PLACING

2025 MEEKER CLASSIC ENTRY INFORMATION – NOT AVAILABLE YET

TRIAL DATES:  September 3 – 7, 2025

2025 Entries will Open March 1, 2025 on DogTrialEntry.com

Handler Information for the Trial – 2024 – Check back for 2025 Info.

  • ALL HANDLERS MUST CHECK-IN AND SIGN A WAIVER BEFORE RUNNING THEIR DOGS – NO EXCEPTIONS
  • CHECK-IN & TACO BAR WELCOME DINNER  – Tuesday evening, September 3, 2024 –   5-7  PM  at the Hospitality Tent on site.
  • ALL OTHER CHECK-INS LATER IN THE WEEK – at the Clerk Shed by the Announcer’s Stand – Handlers MUST checkin in person
  • PRACTICE FIELD – We have some great people hosting the Practice Field – Located up behind the Green Cabins – Download FORM
  • HANDLER’S MEETINGS  – 6:45 every morning of the Preliminaries and the Semi-Finals, Finals – TBA
  • DRAW for SEMI FINAL RUN ORDER – we will do this at the Handler’s Dinner at 5:30 Friday Evening
  • HANDLER’S DINNER – Social Hour begins at 5:15 AT THE TRIAL SITE ON FRIDAY EVENING, draw for the Semi-Finals Running Order will be at 5:30, Dinner at 6:00 compliments of Mountain West Insurance.
  • DRAW FOR FINAL RUN ORDER – Saturday evening after the last Semi-Final Run – Announcer’s Stand
  • 3-2-1 ACTION Video will be filming a 5 days of the competition – you can make arrangements to purchase a video during the trial or visit their WEBSITE
  • CANINE SPORTS MEDICINE AND REHAB SERVICES – ONSITE – DR. ALICE BAKER MEUTEN – CLICK HERE –  will be located in at the EXHAUST

About the competition:

We will run 135 dogs in the 2024 Preliminaries – each dog gets one preliminary run.

Preliminary runs – Wednesday, September 4, 2024  thru Friday, September 6, 2024. 135 Dogs will run in the preliminary runs – each dog gets one run.  There will be 30 dogs run on Saturday for the Semi-Finals, and the top 12 Semi-Final Scores will run on Sunday in the final round. QUALIFYING ENTRIES TO THE SEMI-FINALS . The top 8 scoring runs from each qualifying day will advance to the Semi-Final Round (8 dogs/day for Sept 4, 5 and 6, 2024).  Upon completion of all qualifying runs, the top 6 scoring dogs that have not already qualified (regardless of the day ran) will also advance to the Semi-Finals.

Preliminary Schedule:

 Wednesday, Thursday and  Friday:

  • Dogs 1 – 45    Wednesday  9/04/2024  (45 Dogs)
  • Dogs 46 – 90  Thursady 9/05/2024 (45 Dogs)
  • Dogs 91 – 135 Friday  9/06/2024 (45 Dogs)

HELP is available on the DogTrialEntry.com website or by contacting us!  Please call or email Maym with questions!  970-878-0111 or trials@meekersheepdog.com.

If you want to cancel an entry or make a substitution – please email Maym at trials@meekersheepdog.com

Directions to Practice Field (from Meeker Classic trial field).

1260 County Road 8, Meeker **Google Maps will take you to the wrong place
Follow the directions below:
• Head East on Hwy 13 out of Meeker via Market Street
• Go 1.4 miles – turn right on County Road 8
• Go 1.2 Miles on County Road 8 – TURN RIGHT AT THE GREEN CABINS & CROSS BRIDGE
• Follow the road to the right past the Green Cabins
• Past a tan log house on the right and then a stucco house on the left -don’t turn left towards that house
• There is a sign with the GOEDERT name and address just across from the shop
• Take a right down lane that goes through a hay field (you will be heading west – back towards town)
• Their house is a two story red house under 2 big willow trees – (their place is .8 of a mile from the bridge when you cross the river
• Terry or Dee Ann – 970-261-2855

Bevis Jordan, North Umberland, UK  – 2024 Judge

A manager of a 4200 Acre upland farm in Northumberland, England will preside over the 2024 Meeker Classic Sheepdog Championship Trials. Bevis Jordan will travel to Meeker, Sept. 4 – 8th to judge 135 top border Collies and their handlers as they face off against tough Meeker sheep.

Judging the Meeker Classic is not for the faint of heart – it involves five long days of the utmost concentration, judging and scoring each run. Following the Handler’s meeting each morning at 6:45, the runs start at 7 am each morning and last until 4 or 5 in the afternoon.

Guidelines for judging a USBCHA sanctioned sheepdog trial are modeled after trials in Britain where sheepdog trials and the Border Collie originated. In judging a sheepdog trial, the judge must impartially apply the same standards of evaluation to each run on the course. A trial course is designed to test the dogs ability to manage sheep in a manner that demonstrates practical working skills on the farm or ranch. That course is divided into six scored components.

It is the judge’s responsibility to see that every competitor has a fair chance while scoring each run to the same standard. The judge must sign off on the final score sheet that is the official record of each run and is responsible for upholding rigid rules of decorum, sportsmanship, and humane animal treatment.

This will be the second time Bevis has judged the Meeker Classic. He came to Meeker in 2013. He brings to Meeker a lifetime of experience breeding and training his line of border collies for farm work and competitive trialling. Learning much about dogs and trialling from the many great trial handlers in this very competitive area, Bevis’ success with dogs has been the result of implementing his training methods, dedication and hard work on the farm and competing at trials. He now competes in about thirty open trials and twelve nursery trials a year. He’s been very successful representing England at the National and International and competed at the World trial in Ireland in 2023.

Bevis breeds, trains and sells pups and young dogs that have gone on to compete at the National level. He has exported dogs to USA, Canada and Europe.

Bevis is a Director for the ISDS and is on the judge’s panel. He judged the English National (singles and doubles), Finals and Championships in France, Finland, Czech Republic, Holland, Iceland, Canada and the World Trial in Holland. He judged the USBCHA Finals twice, in addition to judging the Bluegrass, Meeker Classic and numerous state championships and trials all over the USA. Additionally, Bevis competes in and judges cattledog trials.

Born in the south of England, Bevis’ father and grandfather were both shepherds. He and his wife Debbie relocated to the county of Northumberland in the North of England where he has been the farm Manager for Mains Rigg Farm for 29 years. The couple has two grown children, a son who works in New York at a top fashion house and a daughter that works on the farm with him. The 4200 farm terrain ranges from 700 to 1700 feet above sea level. The farm runs 1600 Swaledale breeding ewes, lambing out in April/May and 140 Saler cross cows that calve in February and March. Bevis does this with the help of one full time worker and his daughter.

Bevis and Clerk Ellen Nieslanik during the 2013 Meeker Classic.

The farm produces over 2000 lambs a year for breeding replacements and fat lambs, and sells over 100 calves a year while keeping their own replacement heifers. Bevis was awarded Farm Manager of the year in 2021 by a National Farming Press magazine in a contest against between some of the best Managers in the Northern region.

Bevis is known in the states as a tough and capable judge that has the respect and friendship of many handlers. While in Meeker he plans to spend some extra time visiting ranches and seeing the country. We look forward to sharing time with Bevis again!

HANDLER LODGING OPTIONS

Dry camping for handlers will be available on site.  Potable water and portajohns are available. We will arrange for septic and water delivery (fee basis) during the trial. Below are some other options available for Handlers:

RESULTS & ARCHIVES

MEEKER CLASSIC CHAMPIONS 1987 – 2021

1987    Elvin Kopp & Jeff                     Canada

1988    Bill Berhow & Jen                    Montana

1989    Jack Knox & Maid                   Virginia

1990    Dodie Green & Roy                 Arizona

1991    Bill Berhow & Jen                    Florida

1992    Marv Brown & Samba             South Dakota

1993    Bill Berhow & Nick                  Montana

1994    Dorrance Eikamp & Blue        Wyoming

1995    Bruce Fogt & Molly                 Ohio

1996    Kathy Knox & Bob                   Missouri

1997    Alasdair Mac Rae & Nan         Virginia

1998    Alasdair Mac Rae & Nan         Virginia

1999    Angie Pickle & Sweep              Oklahoma

2000    Derek Fisher & Heidi               Idaho

2001    Alasdair Mac Rae & Sweep     Virginia

2002    Melinda Hanley & Meg           Kentucky

2003    Beverly Lambert & Pippa        Connecticut

2004    Beverly Lambert & Bill            Connecticut

2005    Scott Glen & Pleat                   Canada

2006    Tom Wilson & Sly                    Virginia

2007    Tom Wilson & Sly                    Virginia

2008    Dennis Gellings & Jake            Canada

2009    Amanda Milliken & Ethel        Canada

2010    Suzy Applegate & Buzz         California

2011    Amanda Milliken & Clive      Canada

2012    Faansie Basson & Don           South Africa

2013    Dennis Gellings & Tess          Canada

2014    Ron Enzeroth & Mick             Texas

2015    Amanda Milliken & Howell   Canada

2016    Amanda Milliken & Howell   Canada

2017    Dennis Edwards & Coup        Wyoming

2018    Derek Fisher & Nell     Idaho

2019     Scott Glen & Taff  Canada

2020 – No Trial – Covid

2021    Scott Glen & Alice  Canada

2022 – Faansie Basson & Jack   Texas

2023 – Tom Wilson & Bet